Will Biden restore Bears Ears? Tribal coalition urges president to take 'immediate action'
The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is urging the Biden administration to take “immediate action” to restore and expand the southern Utah monument.
The plea comes amid rumors that a reinstatement is imminent, fueled by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s recommendation to President Joe Biden in June to restore the Bears Ears to its original size of 1.3 million acres.
“Each day that passes without national monument protection for numerous sacred sites and irreplaceable cultural resources risks desecration, looting, vandalism, and misinformed visitation to an area that contains the exact kind of antiquities that inspired the creation of the Antiquities Act,” reads a letter sent to Biden, obtained by the Washington Post.
The letter goes on to warn that artifacts within the site, “considered by us to be messages our ancestors meant for us to see and incorporate as lessons into our present, are literally being erased.”
Read more: https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/9/28/22698883/tribal-coalition-urges-joe-biden-to-restore-bears-ears-national-monument-deb-haaland-southern-utah
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